HP

Background Several months ago one of the Computer Recycling Project at The Working Centre’s donors donated some 2U HP server hardware. One of those machines was a nice HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server. The server came complete with 128GB of RAM, and it had 6 x 146GB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives. While it’s always nice to get any storage and RAM with donations, I needed a bit more storage for what I had in mind. Luckily we had an HP storage array at the back with a bunch of 300GB SAS drives I could just pull out of the array, and plug into the ProLiant DL380p Gen 8, or so I thought… ...

Switching printers at home Other than running out of toner, there was nothing wrong with the HP Laserjet P1102w printer we have at home. The printer printed cleanly, was compact, and was connected to our wireless network, so any machine on our network could print to it. In fact, I was planning on buying more toner this evening after we did our usual scouring of thrift shops. I thought there was a small chance I might find the right HP 85A toner at one of the stores we planned to go to. I did find some other toner at one of the thrift shops, and the $5.95 price tag wasn’t bad, but it was for a different model in the same line of printers. But this was actually after spotting an even better deal, an HP Laserjet 1320 duplex printer for a whopping $10.95. ...